Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Patrick Henry spelled out the choice that will soon be the only remaining choice for citizens in the face of their completely off the rails government.  That choice will be to live free and die, or to live as a slave.  There will be no other options.

The technological tyranny that is being implemented will make liberty along with life an impossibility.  The comfort enjoyed by libertarians and independent thinkers who can exercise their right to free speech to criticize a lawless government has been the ability to blend in with 300 million other Americans and the infeasibility of visiting Waco, Texas upon every person who dare exercise their rights as free people.  But that will change and, despite all the talk of economics driving the massive push for so-called AI and data centers, the real impetus is about granular control of individuals at a reasonable cost.  Staggering tools of tyranny have been erected so powerful that the Great Enlightenment will be extinguished with a button push and a firmware update.

Already today we see the massive police state, the United States Postal Service tasked with monitoring the social media posts of Americans, tax money forced from pockets into companies like Palantir, and free speech and privacy focused companies and individuals ransacked and targeted by western governments.  Free speech and privacy are no longer permitted in the United States.  Even today we see tactical units raiding homes in the middle of the night for alleged infractions the size of a parking ticket and read about the corpses left in the wake and, of course, headlines are currently filled with people being executed upon suspicion of selling an unapproved product to willing customers.  Words continue to be equated with threats and violence no matter if coming from the pretend-left or the pretend-right and the American people celebrate their loss of liberty.

While Americans have long known the tracking devices, that they adorn with stickers and pay each month to carry, spy on their conversations and track their locations,  a network of Flock cameras continues to grow to track their every move even further.  Innocent Americans are put on lists due to travel habits and local law enforcement is tasked with making up a reason to seize, search, and interrogate them.  For Americans today, simply traveling outside your own home subjects you to the whim of federal government introducing armed thugs into your life for reasons you cannot know and cannot prevent.  Perhaps for expressing the wrong view on social media, for criticizing the government you fund, or for angering a local politician.  And when that armored thug carrying multiple tools of violence seizes you in your flip flops at a time and place of their choosing, you have no legal recourse.  No reason will be offered for the order for you to exit your vehicle and the Supreme Court requires you to exit for the safety of the guy with the weapons.  No dash camera or truth of events will result in justice in a court of law, no monetary or other punishment will visit the state thug.  The courts have already ruled you have no rights outside the confinement of parchment, and agents of the state are legally immune even when violating the law.  Your only recourse will be to demand your liberty and defend your rights, and face the full measure of tyranny as a result from a justice system and courts tasked with preserving them.  But everything is inverted in the tyranny we find ourselves in today.

That's how it goes for unfree people who live in an unfree nation as we do.

Seventeen Seventy-Six has been patched over the air with Twenty Twenty-Five and there is no changing the reality that humanity has known for the entirety of its history outside of the miraculous and brief opportunity provided in America which was mocked, sullied and ultimately squandered.  There is nothing left for true Americans but to suffer.  Those who have been comfortable living off the radar and playing the numbers will soon see that comfort removed one data center at a time.  The link between voicing unapproved opinions online and a direct confrontation with a state thug will become all too obvious.

And those few remaining American voices, picked off one by one with little effort, will have their calamity cheered by lessers offering the usual house-slave professions: "the side of the road is no time for legal arguments" and "he was right, but he wasn't persuasive" and "rights are not absolute" and "your rights end at my safety."

I'm glad my brief stint in public service is over.  I am glad I refused to bring children into this world to suffer the people who live here and what they have created.  And I am glad to be old as I await my turn on the train knowing full well the destination while surrounded by the oblivious-stupid still admiring the view out the window.

Give me liberty or give me death.